Toad Hall

Toad Hall is a house that was originally built as cottages around the 16th century. It was remodeled in the early 17th century and extended in either the late 17th century or the 18th century. The structure is timber framed and mostly rendered, topped with a thatched roof. It features brick axial and gable end stacks.

The house has a three-room plan, where the center and right-hand (south) rooms were part of the original two-room layout, with the right room being unheated and the center room open to the roof, heated by an open hearth fire. In the early 17th century, a floor and axial stack were added, and later in the 17th century, the left-hand (north) room was either added or rebuilt as a potential third room.

The exterior is single storey with an attic and has a four-window range. There is a door to the left of center with a three-light casement window on either side; the right window is under a cambered head. Further to the right, there is a three-light leaded casement window, also under a cambered lintel, and a two-light casement window at the far right. Above, there are three eyebrow dormers, with the left one being leaded and likely from the 18th century. A 20th-century window is located at the left end, and there is a two-light window at the right end. The rear features two two-light windows, a three-light window, and four bays of large-panel timber framing, along with a small 20th-century lean-to garage.

Inside, the center room has chamfered axial beams with hallow step stops and a large fireplace with an unchamfered timber lintel. The right (south) room contains a chamfered axial beam with mutilated steps, jowled storey posts, and tie-beams with curved braces. The roof structure includes large principal rafters crossed at the apex, a diagonal ridgepiece, through purlins set on the backs of the principals, and a mortice and tenoned collar, although the cannon rafters are missing. The roof timbers are smoke-blackened over the center rear, and there is a tie beam truss over the north extension, also crossed at the apex.